The days biggest political and news stories, with interviews and reporting from around the nation. Charge of an investigation and a guy who is the subject of an investigation that just got more profound. We have to preface everything, ari, with if the account from Michael Cohen is true, blah, blah, blah. So if the account is true, it is a tremendous change in the landscape. What it does is show us two things. One, that donald trump, from the very beginning, was in on an attempt at collusion, an attempt to conspire with a plot that was described to donald trump jr. As a secret operation by the kremlin to help trump. So if trump knows about that from the very beginning, and is in on it, i think that has a lot of legal, but even more so, political implications. Plus if hes told about this, and even if nothing came out of the meeting, remember throughout the whole campaign and up to now he keeps denying or dismissing the russian operation. Could have been a 400pound guy in a basement. The
the psychiatrist bandy lee in politico today is really about the notion that people who have trump s psychological disposition, bandy s interviewed a thousand of them in her role as a forensic psychiatrist, have this vast emptiness that is filled only by external praise and adulation. when they begin to feel that they re not getting enough of it, it s a catastrophic, internal experience. that s what trump is having right now. what s striking about that is we often talk about how different he is from other presidents. that s something other politicians have. when i worked in congress, you would see them, maybe they didn t make it all the way to the white house, people who were anti-social, sometimes tortured and seemed to need to be on the go, in the action, getting praise while maybe other parts of them were, as you put it, less full. that s why they say washington and hollywood have a
which reflects a real thing, is overidentifying any criticism as trying to destroy you rather than deal with it. does trump have that problem also? this piece i have done with the psychiatrist bandy lee in politico today is really about the notion that people who have trump s psychological disposition, bandy s interviewed a thousand of them in her role as a forensic psychiatrist, have this vast emptiness that is filled only by external praise and adulation. when they begin to feel that they re not getting enough of it, it s a catastrophic, internal experience. that s what trump is having right now. what s striking about that is we often talk about how different he is from other presidents. that s something other politicians have. when i worked in congress, you would see them, maybe they didn t make it all the way to the white house, people who were